 Nor amidst all these triumphs dost thou scorn The humble glow-worms to adorn, And with those living spangles gild (O greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And sleep, the lazy owl of night ;...  The Works of Abraham Cowley - Page 146by Abraham Cowley - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...thy lands above The sun's gilt tents for ever move, And still, as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst...[sphere. They skreen their horrid shapes with the black hemi• With them there hastes, and wildly takes th' alarm, Of painted dreams a busy swarm : At the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...thy lands above The sun's gilt tents for ever move, And still, as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst...those living spangles gild (O greatness without pride I) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ngly subjects, thou dost Aright, And Sleep, the lazy owl... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...thy lands above The Sun's gilt tents for ever move, And still, as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst...her ugly subjects, thou dost fright, And Sleep, the la/y owl of night ; Asham'd, and fearful to appear, They screen their horrid shapes with the black... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...round thy lands above the Sun's gilt tent for ever move, and still as thou in pomp dost go, the shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst...scorn the humble glow-worms to adorn, and with those livingspangles gild, (0 greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...round thy lands above the Sun's gilt tent for ever move, and still as thou in pomp dost go, the shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst...scorn the humble glow-worms to adorn, and with those livingspangles gild, (0 greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...ever move, and still as thou in pomp dost go, to shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Not amidst all these triumphs dost thou scorn the humble glow-worms to adorn, and with those livingspangles gild, (0 greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects... | |
 | Poetical rhapsody - 1814 - 290 pages
...must be beyond all controversy. Hear a few stanzas ! "Night, and her ugly subjects thou dost fright,'1 And Sleep, the lazy owl of Night; Asham'd, and fearful to appear, They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere. With 'em there hastes, and wildly takes... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...passage in Cowley is pointed out by his last editor, Dr. Iluril, as alluded to by Gray, vol. ip 195 : " Night and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And...lazy owl of night; Asham'd and fearful to appear, They skreen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere." Ver. 50. Birds of boding cry] " Love not... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...thy lands above The Sun's gilt tents for ever move. And still, as thou in pomp dost go. The shining Ѐ 0 Q"G 1820 "Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown" Aikin John" John Aikin( j Asharn'd, and fearful to appear, They screen their horrid sliapes with the black hemisphere. With... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...thy lands above The sun's gilt tents for ever move, And still, as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst...thou dost fright, And Sleep, the lazy owl of night; Ashamed, and fearful to appear, [sphere. They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemiWith them... | |
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